Furthermore, adding comparison to lesser acts, this is exactly the sort of sketch that Little Britain would've hammered into the ground and made a weekly affair, and here M&W take it and reverse the comedy dictum that the weak must be hilarious, to brilliant effect.

One assumes that, given enough time and general willingness of the population for this plan to succeed (unlikely here in the First World, at least), the Communist civilization reaches a point of technological stasis where necessity outweighs ornament.

Naw, not quite. The "offensive for Christ" shtick is usually the start of the death spiral for the "independent Baptist church". I grew up in the environment of one and the one I went to had people dancing outside in red demon suits and put "BLACK MASS TODAY!" up on it's front sign.

There's two ways stuff like this starts, and that's either the Phelps method of modified Calvinism, or by the doctrine of unremovable salvation (which is in and of itself a mutant form of Christianized Manichaenism). Both are extreme forms of fundamentalism and are alien to what most people think of as "Christianity". I get the vibe that this church is the latter, and the offensive behavior stems from "Hey, wouldn't you like the freedom to be offensive too because Jesus says we can do anything we like now?" rather than the "We're telling you God hates fags because we're the Chosen Elect".

I accept that theory, but I retort with Casey Serin as the yin to Chris-Chan's yang. Fat, homebound, welfare recipient with no work ethic versus thin, "globe-trotting", capitalist-with-delusions with morality confusion.

It fools you by making you think a cartoon bird of that quality will, in fact, be in the cartoon.

Instead, what you have, is an impersonation of a Disney bird that is representative of the universal Disney style, which itself hasn't really changed in 60 years, and the stylization is such that you start to wonder if anybody at Disney has actually SEEN a bird in decades.